Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Why Study The Humanities?

It seems remarkable to me that so many defenders of the humanities have been so bad at offering arguments in support of their passionately-held belief that the humanities are important...
...especially when one of their arguments is typically the humanities teach you to reason...
I mean, I am inclined to think that there is something valuable about at least most of the humanities...but I actually think that it's harder than it might seem to produce support for that position...